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The Time Traveler's Wife

  • 546 pages ยท about 9 hours
  • First published 2003
  • 37 editions

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1 About this book

Audrey Niffenegger's innovative debut, The Time Traveler's Wife, is the story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, an adventuresome librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-three and Henry thirty-one.

Impossible but true, because Henry is one of the first people diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder: periodically his genetic clock resets and he finds himself misplaced in time, pulled to moments of emotional gravity in his life, past and future. His disappearances are spontaneous, his experiences unpredictable, alternately harrowing and amusing.

Good for readers who want: science fiction, a love story, and a long read.

  • Science fiction
  • Romance
  • Domestic fiction
  • Fantasy
  • Love
  • Death
  • Time
  • First-person narrative

2 About Audrey Niffenegger

Born 1963

Audrey Niffenegger (born June 13, 1963) is an American writer, artist, and academic. Her debut novel, The Time Traveler's Wife, published in 2003, was a bestseller.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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